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Episode #10 — Planet Hugo

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Grab your ballots and your pin numbers and hold on tight as Justin and Renay tackle the 2014 Hugo Award Debate Season and all associated tickle fights. Self-promotion wank, category wank, and the inevitable unpredictably of it all due to the non-U.S. Worldcon are all up for analysis. Download the episode if you're way too invested in Best Related Work category.

Mentioned during episode

• Up Against It by M.J. Locke
• Award Season 2014
• Adam Roberts on SF/F Award Awareness Posts
• Why I Think Author Eligibility Posts Are Selfish, Destructive And Counter-Productive
• Of Awards Eligibility Lists and Unbearable Smugness
• On privilege and self-promotion
• Hello, Tailor
• http://archive.dconstruct.org/2013/fananimal by Maciej Cegłowski
• The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
• The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
• by Brandon Sanderson
• The Mallet of Loving Correction by John Scalzi
• by What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton

Recommendations

• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Spiritwalker Trilogy by Kate Elliott
• The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
• Asking the Wrong Questions
• Speculative Fiction 2012
• “‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley
• Archive of Our Own
• The Book Smugglers
• Pornokitsch

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